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Seeking fulfilment and purpose in your life? The intention of this podcast is to encourage you to focus on your WHY which will enable and empower you to achieve your desires. Creating positive, global ripple effects, guests from all walks of life and at differing stages in their business, career and life speak with podcast host, Amy Rowlinson, sharing their unique perspectives on purpose in relatable, uplifting and inspiring conversations. Have a Purpose. Have a Plan. Focus on WHY.

Focus on WHY Amy Rowlinson

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    • 5.0 • 209 Ratings

Seeking fulfilment and purpose in your life? The intention of this podcast is to encourage you to focus on your WHY which will enable and empower you to achieve your desires. Creating positive, global ripple effects, guests from all walks of life and at differing stages in their business, career and life speak with podcast host, Amy Rowlinson, sharing their unique perspectives on purpose in relatable, uplifting and inspiring conversations. Have a Purpose. Have a Plan. Focus on WHY.

    Healing Power of Nature with Isaac Kenyon

    Healing Power of Nature with Isaac Kenyon

    Do you ever find yourself trapped indoors lost in the digital shuffle craving fresh air? Having attributed nature to saving his life, it is nature which now fuels eco-adventurer, international keynote speaker and philanthropist Isaac Kenyon’s purpose-driven mission. Leaving behind him the deepest depths of digital burnout to redefine human endurance through many world-record achievements and by raising millions of pounds for environmental conservation and mental health causes, Isaac’s purpose is clear. It is to create a positive impact. Connecting people, planet and wellbeing, Isaac reveals just what is possible when you combine moments of creation with adventure and the healing power of nature.
     
    KEY TAKEAWAY
    “Without a purpose it can be quite easy to follow the journey that others lay out for you. I found that during those two years of deep unhappiness that I was following steps carved by others for me and I wasn't following what I wanted to do and that was manifesting in negative ways.
     
    BOOK RECOMMENDATION*
    Lost Connections by Johann Hari - https://amzn.eu/d/gHyHyZk
     
    ABOUT ISAAC
    With a Geoscience Masters’ degree, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and trustee of Mind mental health charity, Isaac also founded 'Climate Explorers,' a B Corporation uniting adventure, well-being, and sustainability leadership. An adaptable speaker, he transforms organisations into high-performing, sustainable powerhouses, valuing mental well-being for extraordinary results.


    CONNECT WITH ISAAC
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaackenyon/
    https://twitter.com/kenyon_isaac
    https://www.instagram.com/isaac_kenyon/
    https://www.facebook.com/isaac.kenyon.7/
    https://www.isaackenyon.com/
     
    ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON
    Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.
     
    WORK WITH AMY
    Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY and discuss purpose coaching or you want to launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 30 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall
     
    KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY
    Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter
     
    CONNECT WITH AMY
    https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson
     
    HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson
     
    DISCLAIMER
    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.
    *As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
     

    • 46 min
    Rule of Thumb with Hilary Briggs

    Rule of Thumb with Hilary Briggs

    Do you make it a daily habit to push yourself every day? Do you take credit for the tremendous talents and abilities you have? Do you have a crisis management mindset? Employing a step by step, bit by bit approach to breaking down seemingly impossible challenges into more manageable chunks, award-winning, international and TEDx Speaker Hilary Briggs pushes through barriers every day. Facing down personal, professional and sporting challenges, Hilary applies drive, determination and purpose to triumph through focus. It is through her curiosity, resilience and continuous strategic measurement that Hilary brings a new perspective to the rule of thumb. 
     
    KEY TAKEAWAY
    “What I am really keen on is taking on challenges which I didn't think I could do. But even more than that, it's helping other people to do things they didn't think they could do.”
     
    ABOUT HILARY
    Once described as "Britain's most exciting woman executive under 40" by Business Age Magazine, Hilary trained as an engineer at the University of Cambridge before her corporate career with Rover Group, Whirlpool Europe and Laird Group plc. For the last 20 years she has supported smaller businesses to improve productivity, performance and profits.
    In parallel, in the last seven years, she’s got into triathlons, transforming herself from low-grade amateur to member of the Team GB Age Group team becoming a silver medallist at the 2023 World Championships overcoming a major Achilles injury on the way.
    CONNECT WITH HILARY
    https://www.facebook.com/hilary.briggs.792/
    https://www.instagram.com/hilarybriggs23/
    https://www.youtube.com/@HEB027
    https://twitter.com/hilarybriggs
     
    RESOURCE
    TEDX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw1CgzMdgfo
     
    ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON
    Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.
     
    WORK WITH AMY
    Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY and discuss purpose coaching or you want to launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 30 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall
     
    KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY
    Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter
     
    CONNECT WITH AMY
    https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson
     
    HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson
     
    DISCLAIMER
    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.

    • 43 min
    Serendipitous Moments and Brave Steps with Richard McCann

    Serendipitous Moments and Brave Steps with Richard McCann

    Overcoming personal tragedy and surviving extreme adversity, motivational speaker and coach Richard McCann transformed his pain and suffering into purposeful change. This shift meant that for almost two decades now Richard has empowered people with his iCan philosophy enabling them to chart their own paths from darkness to purpose, to overcome challenges and to unleash their own potential.
     
    Delivering over 3000 presentations worldwide on resilience, determination, responsibility and change, Richard sees a world full of walking miracles where the possibilities are limitless. Two constant threads have played and continue to play key roles in activating his purpose: one is he believes in serendipitous moments or encounters and the other is he continuously takes purpose-driven brave steps.
     
    KEY TAKEAWAY
    “If I can get through those challenges, and quite frankly go on to achieve far more than I ever thought possible particularly in my younger years, if I can, then you, your loved ones and your colleagues can too.”
     
    BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS*
    The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker - https://amzn.eu/d/2TEKxBM
    Just A Boy by Richard McCann - https://amzn.eu/d/1YhzJkZ
     
    FREE OFFER
    If you want a copy of Richard’s book Just a Man, reach out to him via LinkedIn and mention that you listened to his episode on the podcast Focus on WHY.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmccann/
     
    ABOUT RICHARD
    As the founder of The iCan Academy, Richard offers motivational keynote speaking, presentation skills training and resilience workshops for various audiences, including corporate and business, schools, housing associations and prisons. He has a proven track record of transforming lives and empowering people to communicate confidently and effectively. Whether it is in person or virtually, he always aims to inspire, motivate, train and develop his clients with passion, authenticity and humour.


    CONNECT WITH RICHARD
    https://richardmccann.co.uk/
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmccann/
    https://www.facebook.com/richardmccann
    https://twitter.com/iCanSpeaker
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ican-academy/
     
    ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON
    Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.
     
    WORK WITH AMY
    Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY and discuss purpose coaching or you want to launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 30 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall
     
    KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY
    Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter
     
    CONNECT WITH AMY
    https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson
     
    HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson
     
    DISCLAIMER
    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.
    *As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
     

    • 43 min
    Creating Conditions for Growth with Adrian Brown

    Creating Conditions for Growth with Adrian Brown

    How well are you navigating the complexities of organisational design and leadership in your business? With forty years of experience spanning corporate and business start-ups in different industry sectors, Adrian Brown focuses on creating transformative conditions within teams. From social contracts in small groups to the broader impact on global challenges, Adrian advocates for fostering a culture of contribution and innovation. In today's perplexing business landscape, helping businesses unlock the secrets to purpose-driven change and how to influence the emergent future, Adrian's insightful people-centred strategies focus on creating conditions for growth.
     
    KEY TAKEAWAY
    “You’ve got to grow people. You’ve got to create the conditions for people to grow. That's what I've always done and when I'm not doing it, it fails."
     
    BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS*
    The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel - https://amzn.eu/d/9PXaeNa
    The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek - https://amzn.eu/d/cucamjR
    Zero to One by Blake Masters, Peter Thiel - https://amzn.eu/d/989Fq08
    The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington - https://amzn.eu/d/ijWLdVm
    The Power of Clean Leadership by Michael McMaster, Adrian Brown - https://amzn.eu/d/0siS3so
     
    ABOUT ADRIAN
    Adrian Brown, author, public speaker and consultant at McMaster & Brown, specialises in providing tailored solutions that develop the right conditions for organisations to thrive, focusing on leadership development. Adrian helps leaders develop powerful communication that engages their people to produce extraordinary results. He expertly and succinctly shares the fundamental principles and language that leaders require to create the right conditions for a culture-first, values-based business that has courage, confidence and compassion at its foundation.
    Adrian is married to his wife Wendy and lives in Devon, where they are regularly invaded by their five children.
     
    CONNECT WITH ADRIAN
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianbrowncoachmentor/
    Adrian’s Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BTWLVD3T
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdrianBrown1960
    Email: adrian@mcmasterbrown.com
    Website: https://mcmasterbrown.com
     
    ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON
    Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.
     
    WORK WITH AMY
    Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY and discuss purpose coaching or you want to launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 30 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall
     
    KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY
    Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter
     
    CONNECT WITH AMY
    https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson
     
    HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson
     
    DISCLAIMER
    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.
    *As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

    • 46 min
    Reflections with Actions with Amy Rowlinson

    Reflections with Actions with Amy Rowlinson

    After every five guest interviews, Amy Rowlinson reflects on each of the individual episodes and focuses in on specific topics pulling on different threads and diving deeper to explore elements that piqued her interest.
    In this episode, exploring topics of sobriety, giving, charity, networking, storytelling, creation, self-reflection, purpose, relationships, intuition and love, Amy shares her Reflections with Actions from these five recent podcast episodes:
    383 Sobering Reality with Duncan Bhaskaran Brown
    384 Thoughtful Giving with Mindy Gibbins-Klein
    385 Unnatural Success with Charlie Lawson
    386 In Your Own Words with Beverley Glick
    387 Unconditional Love with Cindy Powers Prosor
     
    KEY TAKEAWAY
    “What happens if you ignore your intuition? You could miss out on important signs or those ‘breadcrumbs’ that could help you to navigate life decisions more confidently and aligned with your purpose. Without engaging your intuition you could unconsciously create a life that is not recognising your potential to shape and design your own future."
     
    BOOK RECOMMENDATION*
    In Your Own Words by Beverley Glick - https://amzn.eu/d/bkcLFJD
     
    RECOMMENDED LINKS
    https://www.amyrowlinson.com/post/focus-on-recovery
     
    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahjvfox_its-all-about-communication-yesterday-activity-7164201724637872128-h6IZ
     
    ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON
    Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.
     
    WORK WITH AMY
    Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY and discuss purpose coaching or you want to launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 30 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall
     
    KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY
    Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter
     
    CONNECT WITH AMY
    https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson
     
    HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson
     
    DISCLAIMER
    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.
     
    *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

    • 39 min
    Unconditional Love with Cindy Powers Prosor

    Unconditional Love with Cindy Powers Prosor

    Holding a profound belief that everyone is inherently a master creator, Cindy Powers Prosor has sensed a partnership with the divine to shape her life’s path from childhood. Harnessing this extraordinary intuitive power of co-creation that resides within has not only guided her own life but has also lit the way for others seeking to unlock their creative potential. Cindy is consciously leaving breadcrumbs for others to follow and has a very clear vision of a shift towards a new world which involves connection, intuition, self-love and unconditional love.
     
    KEY TAKEAWAY
    “It's time to take 100% responsibility for who we want to be and how we can create our life from a place of unity, consciousness, trust, joy, creativity, curiosity, working together, co-creating with all like-minded people, creating more community, and having more fun. That's what I want to believe.”
     
    ABOUT CINDY
    In today’s chaotic and changing world, Cindy Powers Prosor, Soul Guide and founder of OpeningDoorsWithin.com, helps others to consciously create a life they desire. A life that includes greater ease, trust and inner peace. Cindy lives between her seaside home in New Zealand and her California lakeside cottage with her husband Larry. Cindy helps individuals and groups globally through her programs as a qualified coach, teacher, retreat leader, writer, and inspirational speaker.
     
     
    CONNECT WITH CINDY
    https://www.facebook.com/CindyPowersProsor
    https://www.instagram.com/cindypowersprosor/
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindypowersprosor-openingdoorswithin/
     
    ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON
    Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.
     
    WORK WITH AMY
    Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY or launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall
     
    KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY
    Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter
     
    CONNECT WITH AMY
    https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson
     
    HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson
     
    DISCLAIMER
    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence. 

    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
209 Ratings

209 Ratings

HBR001 ,

Fantastic podcast series

It was a real pleasure to be interviewed by Amy. What a pro! Inciteful questions that got me thinking and I know will add more value to listeners as a consequence.
Lots of people talk about “the Why” - here’s a series that will allow you to hear numerous real examples that will guide you to clarify your own “why”…

PearlWithin ,

Touching, insightful and actionable

I’m an avid podcast listener so I was thrilled to be invited by Amy to appear on Focus on WHY - it was such a profound experience and Amy is such a skilled and intuitive interviewer that she always gets to the heart of whatever topic her guest is discussing. I had fresh insights while we were talking - and it’s the same while listening to her other interviews.

mentorkaye ,

Enjoyable, insightful, and I always learn something

I love Amy’s podcast for so many reasons.

The huge and diverse range of guests, her relaxed conversation style, and the questions she asks mean I always learn something.

The “reflections with actions” episodes are especially interesting for me - sometimes I’ll listen to one of them and discover an episode I’ve missed, or one I thought I wouldn’t enjoy but Amy’s perspective makes me give it a try. I’m rarely disappointed!

She’s generous with her airtime too - as a recent guest (in August 2023) I was given plenty of time to talk and share my purpose with Amy and her audience.

Thank you Amy, and here’s to many more episodes!

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